git: 084a3e1e0337 - main - RELNOTES, UPDATING: Document Secure RPC DES removal
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:41:00 UTC
The branch main has been updated by ivy:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=084a3e1e033766eedb88b1cd99d786b4fd692931
commit 084a3e1e033766eedb88b1cd99d786b4fd692931
Author: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-08-10 15:40:08 +0000
Commit: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-08-10 15:40:08 +0000
RELNOTES, UPDATING: Document Secure RPC DES removal
---
RELNOTES | 6 ++++++
UPDATING | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 96149ad15178..da466b594f60 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
+7ac276298b72, 7b8c9de17448, 1271b1d747a7, 9dcb984251b3:
+ Support for Secure RPC DES authentication has been removed. This
+ includes publickey(5), keyserv(8) and the rpc_secure(3) routines which
+ rely on keyserv. The libc symbols are still present for backward
+ compatibility, but all functions will unconditionally return an error.
+
37b2cb5ecb0f:
Add support to VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE() for block cloning.
At this time, ZFS is the only local file system that supports
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 161c13a55065..78562d021e37 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20250810:
+ Support for Secure RPC DES authentication has been removed.
+ The keyserv(8) daemon was already removed, but support for it in libc
+ has also been removed, so if you somehow still had keyserv installed,
+ it will now stop working. There is no workaround for this. Removing
+ DES is considered a feature.
+
20250808:
The CLEAN option has been switched back from default-off to
default-on. This reverts the 20240729 change below.